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Tackling procrastination: It’s easier, and more valuable, than you think Barbara Oakley, PhD

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Tackling procrastination: It’s easier, and more valuable, 

than you think

Barbara Oakley, PhD

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• Arsenic images from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic• The US Senate Chamber in 1868, Courtesy the Cornell University Library via the Commons on Flickr, via http://susanbarsy.com/tag/us‐presidency/. (Okay, it’s not the 48th meeting of 

the German Association of Arts and Sciences in 1875, but it gives a bit of a sense of the era…)• Pomodoro timer, Pomodoro timer, Autore: Francesco Cirillo rilasciata a Erato nelle sottostanti• licenze seguiràOTRS, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Il_pomodoro.jpg• Brick wall ©Kevin Mendez, 2014.• Procrastination funneling ©Kevin Mendez, 2014.• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Optical_microscope_nikon_alphaphot_+.jpg, author, GcG(jawp).• Wagner‐Meerwein rearrangement, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner‐Meerwein_rearrangement, A Wagner–Meerwein rearrangement is a class of carbocation 1,2‐

rearrangement reactions in which a hydrogen, alkyl or aryl group migrates from one carbon to a neighboring carbon• Clip art courtesy Microsoft Corporation

Relevant Readings• Ainslie, G., and N. Haslam. "Self‐Control." In Choice over Time, edited by G. Loewenstein and J. Elster NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 1992.• Boice, Robert. Procrastination and Blocking.  Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996.• Chu, Angela, and Jin Name Choi. "Rethinking Procrastination: Positive Effects of 'Active' Procrastination Behavior on Attitudes and Performance." Journal of Social Psychology 145, no. 

3 (2005): 245‐64.• Duhigg, Charles. The Power of Habit.  NY: Random House, 2012.• Ellenbogen, J.M., P.T. Hu, J.D. Payne, D. Titone, and M.P. Walker. "Human Relational Memory Requires Time and Sleep." PNAS 104, no. 18 (2007): 7723‐28.• Emmett, Rita. The Procrastinator's Handbook.  NY: Walker & Company, 2000.• Emsley, J. The Elements of Murder.  NY: Oxford University Press, 2005.• Fiore, Neil A. The Now Habit.  NY: Penguin, 2007.• Graham, Paul. "Good and Bad Procrastination."  http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.html.• Lyons, I.M., and S.L. Beilock. "When Math Hurts: Math Anxiety Predicts Pain Network Activation in Anticipation of Doing Math." PLoS ONE 7, no. 10 (2012): e48076.• Partnoy, F. Wait.  NY: PublicAffairs, 2012.• Steel, Piers. "The Nature of Procrastination: A Meta‐Analytic and Theoretical Review of Quintessential Self‐Regulatory Failure." Psychological Bulletin 133, no. 1 (Jan 2007): 65‐94.• ———. The Procrastination Equation.  NY: Random House, 2010.• Tice, D.M., and R.F. Baumeister. "Longitudinal Study of Procrastination, Performance, Stress, and Health: The Costs and Benefits of Dawdling." Psychological Science 8, no. 6 (1997): 

454‐58.